AUCKLAND.
[Via Nelson.] Saturday, December 3. The names of two of the men and of the woman of the party that shot Todd, have been ascertained. They are still in the Pirongia ranges, searching for Frissell'a surveying party, whose escape to Alexandra they do not yet know. It is reported that the Kingites nre sby of coming into Alexandra. The Government are instituting an official inquiry. Mr. Moore, the schoolmaster at Kaurau, has lately become obnoxious to the Kingites at Kawhaf, who have warned him not to return to the Mission Station, otherwise he will be shot. On the second reading of the Appropriation Act, an amendment was carried against the Government, who resigned. The Council was adjourned till Tuesday. Arrived. — Joliba, from Lyttleton. Sailed. — Steamers James Patterson and Auckland, for Sydney, via the Bay of Islands, to coal there. Te Kooti is in the neighbourhood of Opotiki, threatening a raid on that place. Two mounted troopers arrived at Tauranga, on the Ist inst., with the information that Colonel Moule had sent . the Constabulary to^-.Opotiki. An open afr meeting, called by tho Protection League to-day, was a complete failure. A resolution in favor of protection was negatived by a great majority. Commercial. — Mr. Binney reports:— Southern flour, £13 to £14. Wheat in fair supply at ss. Oats overstocked. Butter unsaleable at 7d. Fair sale for cheese at 9d.
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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume 15, Issue 2012, 9 December 1870, Page 2
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228AUCKLAND. Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume 15, Issue 2012, 9 December 1870, Page 2
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